Biographical information

Personal life

Epcar graduated from the University of Arizona in 1979. He is the husband of voice actress Ellyn Stern, with whom he owns and operates Epcar Entertainment, Inc., a voice-over production service company based in Los Angeles, California. They have one son and one daughter.

Career

Epcar has been in the voice acting business for over thirty years and has voiced over three hundred characters in games, animation, and anime. He voiced Batou in Ghost in the Shell, Jiggen in Lupin the Third, Mr. Noisy in the Mr. Men Show, and Zangetsu and Koga in Bleach. He has starred in Digimon, Power Rangers, and Bobobo-bobobobo and has worked extensively in video games, voicing characters in Kingdom Hearts, Transformers, Star Wars, Mortal Kombat, Catherine, ModNation Racers, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Call of Duty-Black Ops, Dead Space, Star Craft, Red Faction Guerilla, Command & Conquer, Xenosaga, Guilty Gears, Hack, World of Warcraft, and Resident Evil.

He is also a sought after game-animation voice and ADR director, having directed such games as Star Ocean, Blue Dragon, Unreal Tournament, and Smackdown vs. Raw and Jackass. Some shows he has directed include Lupin the Third, Ghost in the Shell 2, Noein, Fighting Spirit, and Robotech: Shadow Chronicles.

On camera, he has appeared in many films and T.V. shows, including Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Columbo, Diagnosis Murder, Guns of Paradise, Beverly Hills 90210, Matlock, Cheers, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and Broken Spirits. He can also be heard in Rise of the Planet of the Apes as the voice of Buck the big gorilla. He is also the narrator and the voice of forty different characters in the Doc Savage audio book White Eyes.